He cannot get himself out of the Ecuadorian embassy, but the British can get him out by:
1. Sending the Ecuadorian ambassador home to tell the president of Ecuador that Britain is considering breaking off diplomatic relations with Ecuador because that country is an outlaw nation.
2. After a week send all the other Ecuadorian diplomats home with the message that Britain will only deal with Ecuador through the Swiss embassy.
3. Wait for Julian Assange to give up because of hunger or to starve to death.

The Brits have already warned Ecuador that they will come in after him if they do not surrender him “soon”. There is precedent, they busted into the Iranian embassy in 1980 to extricate the killer of a British policewoman.

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posted on 08/16/2012 12:33:49 PM PDT
by Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans!)

Remember the original Mission Impossible? They had whole head masks made that made one person look exactly like someone else. Get him a “new face” temporarily, dress him up in a suit, give him a briefcase, and let him walk right out.

"The Brits have already warned Ecuador that they will come in after him if they do not surrender him soon. There is precedent, they busted into the Iranian embassy in 1980 to extricate the killer of a British policewoman."

Before they do that the should get all the Brits out of Ecuador. Rafael Correa is pretty crazy. I don't doubt for a moment that he would seize the British Embassy and hold the Ambassador and staff. Countries like Venezuela and Argentina would back Ecuador. Britain needs another way to finesse this IMO.

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a United States federal law enforcement agency. In fiscal year 2010, the U.S. Marshals arrested more than 36,100 federal fugitive felons  more than all other law enforcement agencies combined.

Working with authorities at the federal, state, and local levels, U.S. Marshals-led fugitive task forces arrested more than 81,000 state and local fugitives, clearing 108,200 state and local felony warrants.

The Marshals Service is the primary agency responsible for tracking and extraditing fugitives who are apprehended in foreign countries and wanted for prosecution in the United States. The U.S. Marshals Service, which has statutory responsibility for all international, federal and state extraditions, sees to it that there is no safe haven for criminals who flee the territorial boundaries of the United States.

Why did the Brits ever let him enter that embassy in the first place? Hasn't he been hanging out in the UK for well over a year as a "house guest" at some posh country estate? Legal wranglings aside, DUH! Idiots. Now that the horse has bolted they're going to blame the barn...

Wiki: "He was ultimately released, in part because journalist Vaughan Smith offered to provide Assange with an address for bail during the extradition proceedings, Smith's Norfolk mansion, Ellingham Hall. He lived there for a year, then moved out in December 2011 to a "3,000-acre estate in East Sussex"  "a lodge on Lord Abergavenny's Eridge Park estate, near Tunbridge Wells"."

Makes me wonder how East Germany dictator Erich Honecker got out when he took refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow.

It would have been poetic justice if he had to tunnel his way out, to fly a balloon, or to hide in the trunk of a Trabi, I guess, but actually he surrendered and eventually was allowed to go abroad by Yeltsin.

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